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sheatheman

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  1. I make electronic music about waiting until marriage and having one partner for life, living in a modest home in the suburbs, waking up before sunup and making coffee, looking out the east windows and waiting for the red-orange glow.
  2. It is funny when you figure out how easy it is to make hyperpop though. It’s just using vocoders on drums and spectral stuff and some nice ableton drum packs particularly from the “glitch and wash” pack which is essentially their hyperpop building blocks. But most people don’t even do side chained resonators on drums, they just use a huge reverb and write vocals about cum dripping into their oat milk cold brew. It is funny when you figure out how easy it is to make hyperpop though. It’s just using vocoders on drums and spectral stuff and some nice ableton drum packs particularly from the “glitch and wash” pack which is essentially their hyperpop building blocks. But most people don’t even do side chained resonators on drums, they just use a huge reverb and write vocals about cum dripping into their oat milk cold brew.
  3. Yeah queerness and electronic music have been a thing since the late 70s maybe? House techno etc has been a haven countless people as well as a driver for cultural change. To apply the issac newton quote to hyperpop icons, “they stood on the shoulders of giants”
  4. Sorry guys I’m late for my gatekeeping post. Please keep in mind these are just the ramblings of a 32 year old who doesn’t know what 100 gecs sounds like, just my version of events sophie was the first to come to prominence in 2013-14, pre transition, but there was tons of that stuff floating around the SC algorithms then. At that point, I would say deconstructed club and “hyperpop” were still one entity. There were even a couple strains of lofi that were in the pot. Later, in 2016, when Arca fully stepped out from behind the producer veil, showed their face and started singing Spanish opera over super saws and dark reverb, that’s my guess when hyperpop started really developing. Arca was a huge deal for a year solid (remember all those BDSM live shows with lots of prop blood spraying everywhere?), and was one of the most prominent figures in electronic music to bring identity to the forefront. I’m pretty sure Sophie fully came out as a trans woman around 2016-17, complete with topless music video. Even though Arca to my knowledge hasn’t released any hyperpop, both of those artists brought Queer identity into the mainstream as an aspect of serious electronic music. 2018-Now is YouTubers in middle America expanding as the new critical mass hyperpop fan demographic. ... I miss when hyperdub was cool.
  5. No faderfox is 100% my style. Wanted one for a long time. I just have 3 kids and can’t spend $400 on a midi controller. when you say not freely configurable, are you telling me you can’t hit command+m and do fast mapping which is saved to the set? Because that’s the only way I’ve ever used knob controllers. i have a circuit but I use it as a groovebox and sequencer. I mentioned it because it’s my benchmark of novation quality, and you can get a launch control xl for 25%-50% the price of a faderfox ec4. i guess I don’t see what sets them apart other than nice design/form factor, build quality, and encoder resolution. The functionality itself is the same. Please correct me if I’m wrong. If I’m making mappings as I need them for ableton, is there any reason to get a faderfox over the launch control?
  6. What are the real differences between something like faderfox and novation stuff? Is novation just shit? My circuit seems to be a pretty quality thing. Got it for $200, and while I fully believe faderfox stuff is worth it, it’s just hard to justify.
  7. I just bought some Jorgensen clamps from Lowe’s that weren’t on sale. I almost bought a Lenox hole saw kit for 1/2 off, but can count on one hand the times I’ve needed a hole saw, and I can usually use my jigsaw instead. oh I also got NanoStudio 2 and the synth in there is awesome. anyone know of a good comb filter plugin? Can’t believe ableton doesn’t have one
  8. What are all the buttons on the uc-33 for? what about the novation launch control xl? Seems like a good one. i don’t need custom scripts, I just need something freely-mappable, because whenever I’m using knobs, it’s usually a case by case scenario, so I can record automation across multiple devices and tracks at once , which isn’t so easy on push.
  9. The uc4 is the one I want. I haven’t found one for $200 though.
  10. Do you have a different internet? None of what you said is true according to my searches.
  11. Thank you. Making this kind of stuff is half an exercise in trying to impress the watmm demographic. It’s very unnatural for me to make and is very far from what I normally do. Fun though. A lot different from the post-grunge 90s alternative I’m currently making in earnest
  12. Yeah I got a trumpet 2 years ago and it’s been fun. Definitely the most physical instrument I’ve ever played. i have been wanting a jv1080 for a long time. But I would equally want an emu proteus. Ideally both.
  13. What’s a good midi knobs controller? I’ve used the midi fighter twister for years and it’s pretty good in most ways, but it has its glitches, and today it won’t work at all. I’ve had problems with it before where I have to reinstall firmware, but this one seems worse. anyways, I would get a faderfox but they are hard to find and usually cost $400+
  14. here be another sketch using similar techniques as well as fors.fm max devices. eod water port.mp3
  15. You should make a thread too. re: the point about the nebulous value of digital goods, I bought my DEWALT miter saw for less than the sound toys bundle.
  16. Good deal right now on sound toys 5 (see my thread). First time I’ve ever spent money on plugins outside of buying DAW software or iOS stuff. Very inspiring so far
  17. Edit, ok, here is my burger prep station from last Wednesday
  18. Wow, I wish a special person in my life would drop $6k on gear
  19. Man, these really are nice plugins. Definitely worth $230 for all of them. if anything it’s nice to A/B them with my beloved stock ableton racks to work on my patching chops, but they definitely do have their own character. that little plate is one of the nicest reverbs I’ve ever used
  20. Man, PayPal credit is bad for impulse buys.
  21. Push 2 is nicer in every way, but it’s not really an upgrade, from what I know, at least not a $800 one. The only functionality I know of that is different is I think there’s a “convert to simpler” button for audio clips. There might be more, but really I think the push 2 is more about their split with Akai.
  22. Here is the video I was talking about. I don’t think I’ve ever come across real-time formant shifting before, besides maybe the voice changer in garage band. I’m sure there are other ones but this plug in is pretty amazing imo. https://youtu.be/jhG4gw85Boo
  23. I’m not a big plug in guy as you may know since I evangelize myself as such every chance I get. I’ve tried waves stuff and even have a cracked tape waves plug a friend sent me, but besides a few odds and ends (the big free ones, air windows, korg polysix), I’ve never really used a brand of plugins. I despise running authorizing software/keys etc. however, last year I saw a YouTube video by Jamie Lidell on the soundtoys little altar boy, and it was one of the best showcases of a plug-in I’ve ever seen. After seeing that, I downloaded the demo of the suite and made a bunch of tracks. It was the first time i ever felt that excited about third party plugins, and considered buying but the sale window expired. Just saw they have another sale on, and I might pull the trigger this time. Thought I would start this thread to hear if anyone else likes Soundtoys/ can relate.
  24. I can’t imagine a world where I have a better interface than the pro40
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